We
are persisting in our search and trusting in Gods schedule
for our spiritual enlightenment. We are seeking the wisdom to
know and the patience to wait on Gods will in all things.

God
has a perfect schedule for our spiritual enlightenment, and knowing
all things, somehow weaves all of lifes seemingly fortuitous
circumstances, attitudes, and actions into personal tapestries
of rich yet uniquely individual symmetries. The Father controls
the interassociations of all circumstance and engenders our growth
when the time is right. We might intensely desire an event to
transpire, but our wishes have little or no bearing on whether
it is divinely possible for the circumstances and personalities
involved to conform themselves to our vision. The timing of events
eludes our fragile control; opportunities dart like trout from
behind river boulders and never reappear, no matter how patiently
we cast our line.

We
should never expect to get everything we want right now, knowing
that life simply doesnt work that way and that the fruit
of impatience is frustration and bitterness. Daily living proves
how often it is necessary to bear with disagreeable situations,
even for extended periods. Faith teaches us likewise, but in addition,
helps us understand the appropriateness of forbearance. Before,
what patience we could summon arose out of the absence of a viable
alternative; now, we see the greater good in waiting on Gods
schedule. The Father has given us new insight into the working
of his universe, and we agree with its rightness.

Persistence
is especially important in our prayers. Most of the problems about
which we pray admit of no easy solution, but we must keep heart.
We will receive answers, delayed, perhaps, because a better
answer than any we had contemplated is in prospect. No matter
what, we must hang on and never give up, maintaining unshakable
confidence in our Fathers good will and mercy and in his
intention to give us the righteous desires of our hearts.

Patience
serves us well in every aspect of our lives. We wait on Gods
word, recognizing that he is in charge, not us. Understanding
that our lives and careers are secure in our Fathers loving
and all-powerful hands, we find emotional contentment and inner
peace. We have abandoned the futile and frustrating exercise of
trying to force events through the preconceived filter of our
personal expectations or trying to make others conform to our
personal vision for their lives. Whatever the situation is, it
simply is. Our duty is to work hard according to our sense of
Gods leading, accepting the world as it is and disowning
every counterproductive temptation to project our favored outcomes
onto the inexorable procession of effects following causes or
the free-will actions of others.

To
every spirit being and to every mortal creature in every sphere
and on every world of the universe of universes, the Universal Father
reveals all of his gracious and divine self that can be discerned
or comprehended by such spirit beings and by such mortal creatures.
1:4.6

That,
then, is the primary or elementary course which confronts the
faith-tested and much-traveled pilgrims of space. But long before
reaching Havona, these ascendant children of time have learned to
feast upon uncertainty, to fatten upon disappointment, to enthuse
over apparent defeat, to invigorate in the presence of difficulties,
to exhibit indomitable courage in the face of immensity, and to
exercise unconquerable faith when confronted with the challenge
of the inexplicable. Long since, the battle cry of these pilgrims
became: "In liaison with God, nothing--absolutely nothing--is impossible."
26:5.3

May
I admonish you to heed the distant echo of the Adjuster's faithful
call to your soul? The indwelling Adjuster cannot stop or even materially
alter your career struggle of time; the Adjuster cannot lessen the
hardships of life as you journey on through this world of toil.
The divine indweller can only patiently forbear while you fight
the battle of life as it is lived on your planet; but you could,
if you only would--as you work and worry, as you fight and toil--permit
the valiant Adjuster to fight with you and for you. You could be
so comforted and inspired, so enthralled and intrigued, if you would
only allow the Adjuster constantly to bring forth the pictures of
the real motive, the final aim, and the eternal purpose of all this
difficult, uphill struggle with the commonplace problems of your
present material world. 111:7.2

One
day when Ganid asked Jesus why he had not devoted himself to
the work of a public teacher, he said: "My son, everything must
await the coming of its time. You are born into the world, but no
amount of anxiety and no manifestation of impatience will help you
to grow up. You must, in all such matters, wait upon time. Time
alone will ripen the green fruit upon the tree. Season follows season
and sundown follows sunrise only with the passing of time. I am
now on the way to Rome with you and your father, and that is sufficient
for today. My tomorrow is wholly in the hands of my Father in heaven."
130:5.3

"Prayer
is the breath of the soul and should lead you to be persistent
in your attempt to ascertain the Father's will. If any one of you
has a neighbor, and you go to him at midnight and say: 'Friend,
lend me three loaves, for a friend of mine on a journey has come
to see me, and I have nothing to set before him'; and if your neighbor
answers, 'Trouble me not, for the door is now shut and the children
and I are in bed; therefore I cannot rise and give you bread,' you
will persist, explaining that your friend hungers, and that you
have no food to offer him. I say to you, though your neighbor will
not rise and give you bread because he is your friend, yet because
of your importunity he will get up and give you as many loaves as
you need. If, then, persistence will win favors even from mortal
man, how much more will your persistence in the spirit win the bread
of life for you from the willing hands of the Father in heaven.
Again I say to you: Ask and it shall be given you; seek and you
shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you. For every one who
asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks the door
of salvation will be opened." 144:2.3

That
same evening Jesus made the long-to-be-remembered address to
the apostles regarding the relative value of status with God and
progress in the eternal ascent to Paradise. Said Jesus: "My children,
if there exists a true and living connection between the child and
the Father, the child is certain to progress continuously toward
the Father's ideals. True, the child may at first make slow progress,
but the progress is none the less sure. The important thing is not
the rapidity of your progress but rather its certainty. Your actual
achievement is not so important as the fact that the direction
of your progress is Godward. What you are becoming day by day
is of infinitely more importance than what you are today. 147:5.7